Tag: ransomware
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NoMoreRansom’s first birthday demonstrates importance of collaboration
This week, the NoMoreRansom project celebrates its first anniversary and can look back to subtle but important successes in the fight against ransomware. The advice from security experts to ransomware victims tends to be twofold: keep backups, and don’t pay the ransom . The former is indeed very important advice, but isn’t really helpful when…
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NoMoreRansom’s first birthday demonstrates importance of collaboration
This week, the NoMoreRansom project celebrates its first anniversary and can look back to subtle but important successes in the fight against ransomware. The advice from security experts to ransomware victims tends to be twofold: keep backups, and don’t pay the ransom . The former is indeed very important advice, but isn’t really helpful when…
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48 hours after initial reports, many mysteries remain around the latest ransomware/wiper threat
“What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet” Shakespeare’s philosophising can equally be applied to malware, and whether you call it Petya, NotPetya, Nyetya or Petna, the latest piece of malware to hit the headlines is just as damaging. The name isn’t the only thing…
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48 hours after initial reports, many mysteries remain around the latest ransomware/wiper threat
“What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet” Shakespeare’s philosophising can equally be applied to malware, and whether you call it Petya, NotPetya, Nyetya or Petna, the latest piece of malware to hit the headlines is just as damaging. The name isn’t the only thing…
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WannaCry shows we need to understand why organizations don’t patch
For the past few days, the world of Infosec on Twitter has tried to find as many ways as possible of saying “we told you so”. To be fair, it’s true – we did tell you so: for years we have warned of the dangers of not patching, of not keeping backups, and of running services…
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WannaCry shows we need to understand why organizations don’t patch
For the past few days, the world of Infosec on Twitter has tried to find as many ways as possible of saying “we told you so”. To be fair, it’s true – we did tell you so: for years we have warned of the dangers of not patching, of not keeping backups, and of running services…
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Modern security software is not necessarily powerless against threats like WannaCry
We have become used to the idea of cybersecurity stories sometimes making the mainstream news, but the UK’s newspapers across the spectrum, from broadsheets to tabloids, all opening with the same cybersecurity story – as they did on Saturday – is unprecedented. The reason for such a heightened level of interest was the crippling of the…
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Modern security software is not necessarily powerless against threats like WannaCry
We have become used to the idea of cybersecurity stories sometimes making the mainstream news, but the UK’s newspapers across the spectrum, from broadsheets to tabloids, all opening with the same cybersecurity story – as they did on Saturday – is unprecedented. The reason for such a heightened level of interest was the crippling of the…
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Ransomware not a problem for half of businesses
If you are wondering why ransomware continues to thrive, a recent study from IBM Security provides a simple explanation: 70 per cent of the ransomware-infected businesses they surveyed ended up paying the ransom to get their data back. Clearly this goes against the advice given by many security professionals, which is never to pay the…
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Ransomware not a problem for half of businesses
If you are wondering why ransomware continues to thrive, a recent study from IBM Security provides a simple explanation: 70 per cent of the ransomware-infected businesses they surveyed ended up paying the ransom to get their data back. Clearly this goes against the advice given by many security professionals, which is never to pay the…